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I was roommates with 2 of the guys who were influential in forming the Black Arts philosophy. I called them "goons," and [Amiri] Baraka took offense at that. But if you read his autobiography, the night we went up there for a fundraiser, he talks about how he wished that some violence would happen to us. How do you like Baraka as a gracious host?

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In Haitian mythology there is the figure Ghede, who in West Africa, is Iku, whose role is to show "each man his devil." He's represented by a figure …

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The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.

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History is the story of warfare between secret societies.

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The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to p…

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Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

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I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an…

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